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Master composite pattern best practices in C# including type safety, child management, recursive operations, and organized tree-based architectures. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/04/08/composite-pattern-best-practices-in-c-code-organization-and-maintainability
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We’re excited to announce that the GitHub Copilot for Eclipse plugin is going open source under the MIT license and will be hosted on GitHub under the microsoft organization Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/ghc-eclipse-is-going-open-source
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Multi-agent systems demo beautifully. Putting them in front of real users is another story. In early prototypes, a terminal or a basic chat window is enough. But once agents start handing off to each other Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/agent-framework/ag-ui-multi-agent-workflow-demo
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Discover OpenAI’s Child Safety Blueprint—a roadmap for building AI responsibly with safeguards, age-appropriate design, and collaboration to protect and empower young people online. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/introducing-child-safety-blueprint
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Earlier this year, we introduced MCP Apps in the Azure Functions MCP extension. These are tools that go beyond text and render full UI experiences, serve static assets, and integrate seamlessly with AI agents. If Link to article: …
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Learn how to implement plugin architecture in C# using modern .NET patterns. Complete guide with AssemblyLoadContext, DI integration, and working code examples. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/04/07/plugin-architecture-in-c-the-complete-guide-to-extensible-net-applications
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On March 9, Microsoft announced a major step forward in agent capabilities: agents can now bring rich, app powered UI experiences directly into Microsoft 365 Copilot chat, Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/mcp-apps-now-available-in-copilot-chat
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I've been exploring GitHub Copilot's modernization capabilities for .NET and Java applications, and I wanted to share what I've learned about the most critical piece of the puzzle: the assessment document. Here's what makes this tool interest Link to article: …
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AI agents are really good at writing code. Embarrassingly, scarily, and increasingly good. But generating code and shipping working full-stack apps are very different things. Right now, most agents are fantastic at the first part and terrible at everything after it. To try and keep agents on track, we layer on Markdown …
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Today we are announcing that ASP.NET Core 2.3 will reach end of support on April 7, 2027. After that date, Microsoft will no longer provide security patches, bug fixes, or technical support for ASP.NET Core 2.3. This announcement provides the required 12 months of advance notice, as defined by the Link to article: …
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Azure Cosmos DB enables scalable AI-driven document processing, addressing one of the biggest barriers to operational scale in today’s enterprise AI landscape. Organizations continue to manage massive volumes of structured and unstructured content—contracts Link to article: …
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This post walks through building an automated podcast generator that creates engaging conversations between two AI hosts on any topic, demonstrating the streaming capabilities of Nova Sonic, stage-aware content filtering, and real-time audio generation. Link to article: …
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In this post, we show you how to build a natural text-to-SQL solution using Amazon Bedrock that transforms business questions into database queries and returns actionable answers. Link to article: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/text-to-sql-solution-powered-by-amazon-bedrock/
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If you work with multiple monitors like I do, you’ve probably grown to love floating tool windows and documents in Visual Studio. Being able to pull out Solution Explorer, the debugger, or your code files onto a second (or third) screen can be a huge productivity boost. But there’s always been a bit of friction with …
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In a comment to my discussion of the Windows 95 patch system, commenter word merchant wondered whether there were any Windows 3.1 programs or drivers that were so incompatible with Windows 95 that there was no point trying to patc Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260407-00/?p=112213
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For non basketball fans, the NCAA Tournament championship game broadcasts end each year with a highlight montage to a cheesy song called “One Shining Moment” that’s one of my favorite things to watch each year. The Critter Stack community is pretty much always busy, but we were able to make some releases to Marten, …
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Whether you’re in “fan” or “fear” mode (or somewhere in-between), there’s no denying that Artificial Intelligence changed how we build products, and do business. We’ve always had cybersecurity threats but now the landscape is more complex and we have to consider new forms of fraud detection, customer support, …
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Master the adapter design pattern in C# with practical examples showing interface conversion, legacy integration, and third-party library wrapping. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/04/07/adapter-design-pattern-in-c-complete-guide-with-examples
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This is a guest post from Iulia Feroli, founder of the Back To Engineering community on YouTube. TensorFlow is a powerful open-source framework for building machine learning and deep learning systems. At its core, it works with tensors (a.k.a multi‑dimensional arrays) and provides high‑level libraries (like Keras) that …
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